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On 06/12/2012 10:38 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> As it came up during the server-team meeting, it seems that> the stack of dependencies for virtual is probably not what> it was intended to be.>> Note that I made additional changes based on the assumption> that it would be good not to cross depend on any generic> meta-packages. It feels that would blow up the stack without> benefit and potentially confuses people.
The idea behind linux-virtual depending on the linux-generic meta
package was to eventually get us to a place where we could drop these
stub virtual meta packages in wholesale and just use the generic meta
packages across the board. However, I can't see that being possible at
this time with how we've structured our meta packages, eg:
linux-<flavor> depends on linux-image-<flavor>, linux-headers-<flavor>
How about the following v2 of the patch (see attached). It reinstates
the virtual meta package to depend on linux-image-virtual and
linux-headers-virtual. This then follows the dependency model as all of
our other meta packages and also ensures we don't pull in the extra
bloat of the -extra's package. I also adjusted some of the package
descriptions.
Thanks,
Leann